Letter: Middle class being destroyed

The GOP and the tea party are using popular prejudice, false claims and unrealistic promises to manipulate uninformed and gullible citizens. Their lust for power, insatiable greed and fanatical ambition is self-destructive and will likely take the rest of us down with them. The systematic autocratic obstruction of democratic principles is destroying the middle class. A productive engaged and active middle class is essential and necessary for good government.

Those who support arming civilians with military weaponry should be ashamed of their paranoid fantasies.

Those who produce and serve generate the wealth of this nation. The corporate-owned politicians, CEOs, stockbrokers, money brokers and their ilk parasitically siphon off the wealth off those who work for a living.

Our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

Uncle Sam is so riddled with the aforementioned parasites he's on his knees gasping for air. Mother Earth is suffering life-threatening disease brought on by irresponsible and reckless exploitation of natural resources and overpopulation. Atmospheric and terrestrial pollution is a very real threat to life as we know it. Future generations will most likely be overwhelmed by the insoluble dilemma brought about by the herein cited conditions.